More Faith-Based Oppression From the Right.

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Since its formation 29 years ago in 1993, the far-right Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has consistently fought against gay rights -- often equating anti-gay discrimination with religious freedom.  When Kristen Waggoner, legal counsel for ADF, spoke at Yale University on March 10, about 120 students protested her appearance.  And in Utah, two well-known Republicans -- Sen. Mike Lee and State Attorney General Sean Reyes -- have added their names to a letter demanding punishment for Yale students who protested the March 10 event.

More than half of the school’s students signed an open letter critical of the decision by the Federalist Society to invite Waggoner to speak and condemned the presence of armed police at the protest. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken said the protest was "unacceptable" behavior from the students, but they had not violated the school’s free speech policy.

Co-founded by Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, the Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund) represents a far-right form of White evangelical Christian fundamentalism and is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

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The irony is that Mike Lee, not sure about Sean Reyes, would be considered a heretic by most hardcore evangelicals.